Viewing Metric Properties

You can view the properties for a metric.


Before you begin: View the list of metrics for a quality. See Listing Quality Metrics.
  • View the fields on the Metric Properties page.

    Name. The name of the metric.

    Source. Each metric has a different source: Goal, Predicted, Allocated, Measured, and Controlled. Only one metric with each source can be added to a CTQ, so there can never be more than 5 metrics. See Quality Metrics and Their Sources for details.

    DPMO. Defects Per Million Opportunities. The average number of defects per unit observed during an average production run divided by the number of opportunities to make a defect on the product under study during that run normalized to one million.

    DPU. Defects Per Unit is the average number of defects observed when sampling a population. DPU = Total # of Defects / Total population

    Sigma. NORMSINV(1-((Total Defects) / (Total Opportunities))) + 1.5

    Comments. Any comments about the metric.